Category Archives: WordPress

Best WordPress WooCommerce Plugins To Customize Payment Options & Related Features

WooCommerce is a free plugin to transform any WordPress website into eCommerce based online store with all important features such as product browsing, payment options and shopping cart etc.

Since it is the most popular eCommerce WordPress plugin so there are tons of addon plugins available to extend its default functionality.

In this article we have handpicked some of the best WooCommerce plugin that will enable you to extend and customize payment options and other related features on your WordPress WooCommerce website.

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How To Modify YouTube oEmbed URLs In WordPress?

With oEmbed you can automatically embed any YouTube video simply by pasting its URL in post content. Unlike to default iframe embed code, oEmbed is easy, responsive but there are no visual options to reset custom values such as hiding YouTube logo, show info etc.

In this lesson you will learn about assigning custom parameters to YouTube video oEmbeds in WordPress.

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How To Pass Default Value For Any Custom Field Across All WordPress Posts?

WordPress provides ability to post authors for assigning custom fields to any post, page or custom post type. This arbitrary additional information is called meta-data which may include bits of information.

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How To Fix Image Gallery From Appearing Below Related Posts Column In Rowling WordPress Theme?

Rowling is a popular WordPress theme with is a clean, simple and elegant magazine layout for WordPress websites. Theme features a responsive design, great typography, two menu locations, social menu support, custom accent color support, custom logo support, gallery post format support, editor style support, a Flickr widget and recent posts and recent comments widgets with thumbnails.

The problem comes when you embed image galleries inside your post content, by default they show up after related posts section column leaving empty space on the top.

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How To Display Videos Using Grid Layout In WordPress?

Video Grid provides you a new beautiful and responsive way of displaying videos on your WordPress site with lightbox overlay effect.

You can add any number of videos from admin panel then display them anywhere inside your posts, pages and other cutom post types via shortcodes.

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How To Scan Your WordPress Themes For Threats?

Theme Authenticity Checker (TAC) allows you to easily scan all of your theme files for potentially malicious or unwanted code. The plugin searches source files of every installed theme for any signs of hidden malicious code or injection etc.

And if such code is present on your WordPress theme, the plugin will display you the path to that specific theme file, the line number, and snippet of the suspected code to be removed.

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What Are WordPress Transients? How To Manage Them?

WordPress Transients works like a basic built-in cache system used by WordPress core and theme. Transients API is used by theme developers, it offers a simple and standardized way of storing cached data in database temporarily by giving it a custom name and a time-frame after which it will expire and be deleted.

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How To Add BuddyPress Menus On WordPress Navigation?

By default BuddyPress menus such as personal activity, notifications, profile, settings and messages are automatically added to WordPress admin bar.

But now there is no need to stick with WordPress admin tool bar on frontend just because it shows BuddyPress networking menus. Because now you can easily add BuddyPress’s personal and account menu items to any menu location using built-in WordPress navigation settings.

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Configuring WP Super Cache Plugin To Speedup Your WordPress Website

WP Super Cache is a popular and featured cache plugin, officially developed by WordPress core programmers and Automattic team. The plugin can be used everywhere such as on shared hosting plans, VPS and dedicated servers.

It powers WordPress with a very fast caching engine that produces static HTML files to better your loading time and reduce resource usage.

When HTML files are generated, your webserver starts to serve those files instead of processing PHP queries. Hence, less resources are used and website loads faster than before.

These static files are served to majority of your visitors, but when a user’s details are shown in the comment form, as they leave a comment then in that case requests are handled by the legacy caching engine.

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Limit Users Access To Their Respective Website In WordPress

A few hours back, we have discussed about automatically redirecting users to their specific website, as soon they login to your WordPress multisite network.

But once a successful login is made, it won’t get called again with that code and thereafter if any user attempts to get access to other’s website, he will easily get it.

So how to enforce redirection to logged-in user’s respective website? In this lesson you will learn about getting this job done with an easy PHP function.

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How To Login Redirect WordPress Users To Their Subsite?

You can automatically redirect users to their respective sub-site after login in your WordPress multisite network. This can easily be done either by adding some code in your theme’s function.php file or via Code Snippets plugin.

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What WordPress Cache Plugin To Use? WP Super Cache Or W3 Total Cache?

WP Super Cache and W3 Total Cache are two most popular cache plugins for WordPress websites. Both plugins are designed to generate cache of your website in order to make it fast and perform better on world wide web.

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How To Add SMS Sharing Button In WordPress?

There are various plugins that allows your users to share posts on social networking websites. Earlier we have discussed about adding Whats App sharing button in WordPress, read:

  1. WhatsApp Sharing For WordPress Can Increase Your Website Traffic
  2. Enable WhatsApp Sharing Button In Jetpack Powered WordPress Site

Now you may also activate SMS sharing button so that your users would be able to share your content by sending links to mobile numbers via SMS.

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How To Clear “Briefly Unavailable For Scheduled Maintenance” Message In WordPress?

Core automatic upgrade feature was introduced in WordPress Version 2.7. While doing automatic upgrade WordPress places a file named .maintenance in your website’s root directory.

The file is shown during automatic and manual updates made from WordPress admin section. But sometimes when WordPress fail in completing the update process (especially when your PHP memory is hitting its resources or during some communication error etc), it keeps showing, “Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute.” message on every page of your website.

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Autoptimize Your WordPress Website Minimizing JS, CSS & HTML

When it comes to optimizing your WordPress website, the question comes, how to? Now no worries, in this lesson you will learn about automatically optimizing your website and minifying JavaScript, CSS and HTML files which are pushed into header when you activate new plugins and themes in your WordPress installation.

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Remove Query Strings From Static Resources In WordPress

Google uses page speed to rank any website on its search results page. Hence, removing query strings from static resources improves the performance of your website.

This not only betters your performance on SERPs but also enhances user experience, because no one wants to visit a website that takes lots of seconds to load.

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How To Remove Built-in User Roles In WordPress?

Subscriber, editor, author and contributor are built-in WordPress user roles. In case you have already created new user roles using popular User Role Editor or any other plugin and now you don’t need default WordPress user roles on your website. You can easily remove them by creating a new PHP function.

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